22 December, 2006

Kids say the flyest thangs

Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not.

It's Saturday afternoon staple if you're pitching a new show to the television bigwigs... "we'll get a bunch of schoolkids and hear what they have to say about grown-ups stuff. It'll be hilarious!" We can all laugh at their crazy ideas, and go "awww".

The car I want the most is a Lamborghini. I like this car, because it is fast and the doors go up. Also it is a low-rider and looks cool.Stephen Byrd Grade 5 Three Rivers Elementary

When you reflect on it Lamborghini are playing the most sophisticated marketing 'long game' in the world: We don't give a fuck if you think our motors are crass or irrelavent, most 10 year olds want one. In 35 years time if only 0.05% of them act on that wistful memory... ker-ching!

Anyhoo, well done kids, to paraphrase Paul's annoying letter writing campaign to the Corinthians: - when you are a child is the time to think as a child and understand as a child. You don't have to put away childish things quite yet.

More worrying is how quickly some kids are growing up and becoming dull when they say:

If I had a car I would like a Mitsubishi. The seats fold up and it makes room for more people or stuff.Loren Murray Grade 5 Three Rivers Elementary

Still, it does clear up where Max Power and MTV go to get their editorial line...

If I had a car I would want it to be a white Escalade on rims. The rims would spin around as I drove all over town. I would have switches so the car goes up, down, right and left. You know - hydrolexs. It will be brown in the inside with TVs on the roof. That is the car I would have.Gabby Nix Grade 5 Three Rivers Elementary